“A Young Doctor’s Notebook” puts Don Draper and Harry Potter together in a bathtub; actually it’s Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe in four loosely connected half-hour episodes that are adaptations of short stories from the 1920s by the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov.

Radcliffe plays a young doctor; Hamm plays an older version of the doctor who accompanies his younger self in his memories of being sent in 1916 to a country hospital where life is often strange, grotesque and melancholy (it is Russian, after all).

The actors are at their best, and it makes for fascinating TV.

If you’re looking for something quiet, there is “The Lunchbox,” a poignant and sweet Indian film that was a hit at Cannes last year about an aging widower facing retirement and a despairing young housewife.